'Metro' Enters NYC Newspaper Fray

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NEW YORK Metro International hits the streets here this morning with 300,000 copies of its free Metro newspaper and a marketing campaign that aims to grab young commuters.

The fledgling daily is not just calling out fellow freebie AM New York, which launched last year and has a daily circulation of about 200,000, but is taking aim at paid offerings as well, including The New York Times, New York Daily News and the New York Post, said MI vice president of marketing and research Toby Constantine.

“This



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